questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many civil servants in his Department have a criminal conviction.
answerText: The information requested is not held centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate costs. New appointments to Defra undergo pre-employment criminal record checks. Where a conviction is flagged, appointment is dependent on a role-specific risk a...
heading: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Offenders